Thursday June 11
We stayed in Muskegon until Wednesday morning. Tuesday was mostly foggy, and we stayed put, as the anchor held us tight. You learn a lot about the bottom when you weigh anchor. We were in black mud and silt. Excellent holding, but you need to go over top of the anchor to break it free. The flukes of the anchor hold onto a pretty big blob of the mud. Easiest way to remove the mud is to bring the anchor up near the surface of the water, and gently motor forward. The moving water will rinse it clean, and then we pull it up tight with the anchor windlass, attach the chain hook to take the load off of the windlass and ease it back out a few inches. This is a similar technique used in anchoring. The windlass is designed to move…